Constantinople, the magnificent capital of the Byzantine Empire, fell to the Ottoman Turks under Sultan Mehmed II ...

On that cold, quiet morning of May 29, 1453, the jewel of the Eastern Roman Empire, girded by titanic Theodosian walls and the Bosphorus Strait, a bastion of Christianity in the East for more than a t ...

Ioannis Kolettis, later Greek Prime Minister, formalised this longing in his political program—the Μεγάλη Ιδέα—a revivalist ...

This is the story of Constantinople’s fall, how Europe’s richest city fell to the Turks and became known as Istanbul: the ...

Istanbul marked the 1,700th anniversary of the First Council of Nicaea, the groundbreaking gathering convened in 325 by ...

Ancient military fortifications dating back to the Ptolemaic and Roman eras of Egyptian history were recently uncovered by archaeologists. The Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities ...

Constantinople is built on seven hills upon ... Rome by widening the boundaries of the old town and constructing new fortifications. The wall which he built formed the boundary and bulwark of ...

When Charlemagne traveled to Rome in 800, the pope declared him the Holy Roman Emperor, giving him “equal status with the Byzantine emperors in Constantinople,” as the Catholic News Agency writes.

Whether the city was in the hands of the Ottomans or the Russians, the fortifications were a tough nut to crack ... feared Russia might well dominate the Black Sea, Constantinople (Istanbul), and the ...

As AI systems become more complex and widespread, the need for reliable, sustainable, and scalable energy infrastructure—what we call “energy fortification”—is more critical than ever.

Constantinople. The City of the World ... When histories greatest fortification was stormed, and Europe’s largest cathedral was transformed into a mosque, the Empire formed by Romulus and ...